July 27, 2015 – May 27, 2019
We Bare Bears is an American animated sitcom created by Daniel Chong for Cartoon Network. The show follows three bear brothers, Grizzly, Panda, and Ice Bear, and their awkward attempts at integrating with the human world in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The series was based on Chong's webcomic The Three Bare Bears, and the pilot episode made its world premiere at the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival, where it won in the "Young Amsterdam Audience" category. The show premiered on July 27, 2015, and ended on May 27, 2019, and ran for four seasons and 140 episodes.
A film adaptation, We Bare Bears: The Movie was released digitally on June 30, 2020 and later aired on Cartoon Network on September 7, 2020; it served as a conclusion to the narrative of the series. A spin-off prequel series titled We Baby Bears focuses on the three bears when they were cubs. It was announced in May 2019 to be in development and premiered on January 1, 2022.
Hacienda Post/Sabre Media Studios provided the post production sound services: Timothy J. Borquez and Alex Borquez are the Supervising Sound Editors, and Daisuke Sawa and Tony Orozco are the sound editors. Marc Mailand is the sound effects designer/editor for the pilot, one of his last Hacienda Post projects. The sound design style is generally realistic as is the nature of the show, although the Hacienda Post sound designers tend to use a fair number of "cartoon" sound effects in the show, usually in realistically appropriate contexts and rarely in a cartoonish context.
Storyline[]
We Bare Bears follows three anthropomorphic adoptive brother bears: Grizzly (Eric Edelstein), Panda (Bobby Moynihan), and Ice Bear (Demetri Martin). The bears attempt to integrate with human society, such as by purchasing food, making human companions, or trying to become famous on the Internet, although these attempts see the bears struggle to do so due to the civilized nature of humans and their own animal instincts. However, in the end, they figure out that they have each other for support.
The Bears often form a "bear stack", which they use to get around the city, and has become perhaps the most recognizable image from the show. Occasionally, the bears share adventures with their friends, such as child prodigy Chloe Park (Charlyne Yi), bigfoot Charlie (Jason Lee), the bears' rival and internet sensation koala Nom Nom (Patton Oswalt), park ranger Tabes (Cameron Esposito), and produce saleswoman Lucy (Ellie Kemper). Some flashback episodes chronicle the adventures of the bears as cubs trying to find a home.
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